My DnD Group Recently Started A Second Campaign & I’m In Love With Our Player Characters!!

the thing about gideon the ninth is that it should not work. the whole thing sounds like a fucking disaster. you look at it on paper and it seems like a word salad made into a novel. there's bible shit. there's space shit. there's whodunnit shit. there's Human Anatomy and Physiology BIO 2102 and Lab shit. the characters have names like Williambert Decaheptagoneronagus. there's internet memes for some goddamn reason. none of this should work. and yet somehow it all ends up not only working as a coherent novel and series of books, but being an incredibly profound piece of art on themes of grief, love, and human nature itself. it doesn't pull any punches, even if sometimes the punches are protonjon quips from 2007. thank you tamsyn.

"your days are numbered" yes that is quite literally how the calendar system works

Got new pants

??? I can't see them

somehow knowing that tumblr is being kept around mostly as a testing ground for advertisers and corporations doesn’t even make me feel that exploited, because every social media site is exploitive. but being basically lab rats to test shit on before it’s refined for use in polite society is by far the funniest possible way to be exploited.

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Wretched voice in my head telling me to make an absurdly complicated tactical TTRPG where every character class is managing multiple unique mechanics and juggling four or more resources. Ideally every class takes over ten hours to, like, figure out, and very few of the skills learned transfer from class to class. They should all be capable of immense bullshit if you can figure out how they do what they do and how to optimize your turn structures. The things keeping me from doing this are twofold:

It would take a long long long time to make

It would fucking suck to play

violence